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Chief Justice of India T S Thakur’s disappointment over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s silence on judicial appointments in his Independence Day speech today were seized upon by the opposition parties with the Congress saying he should heed the advice of the top judge.

Chief Justice of India T S Thakur’s disappointment over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s silence on judicial appointments in his Independence Day speech today were seized upon by the opposition parties with the Congress saying he should heed the advice of the top judge.

The Congress also said Justice Thakur’s remarks on the prime minister’s speech were “unprecedented yet starkly true” while Delhi Chief Minister and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal “admired” the CJI for his “courage”

“75 names of HC judges cleared by SC stalled; Memorandum of Appointing Judges thwarted. Deliberate obstruction of justice by an obstinate PM,” he said in a series of tweets. Kejirwal also took to Twitter to praise the CJI. “I really really admire CJI’s courage, conviction and his concern for justice,” he tweeted.

Amid continuing standoff between the judiciary and the government, Justice Thakur expressed his disappointment that the Prime Minister did not make any mention about appointment of judges in his Independence Day address.

“I heard the popular Prime Minister for one-and-a-half hours... I expected some mention about justice also, about appointment of judges,” the Chief Justice said at a function here where Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad was present.

Displaying his unhappiness, Justice Thakur said, “I want to tell the Prime Minister only one thing, you remove poverty, create employment, bring schemes etc but also think about justice for the countrymen.”

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